Several cable news networks favored by Democrats are becoming increasingly alarmed by the widespread popularity of former President Donald Trump.

As numerous polls consistently indicate that the former president is surpassing President Joe Biden in popularity, it is becoming evident to many of these networks that the current commander-in-chief is historically unpopular.

“So, let’s go ahead and we’re going to look at the race to 270, right, because at the end of the day, it’s all about delegates,” CNN analyst Harry Enten said.

“Here’s the 2020 map, right? Joe Biden won with 306 electoral votes. Donald Trump got 232. But look at where our projections are right now, our race ratings right now, what do we see? We see something completely different. We see Donald Trump at 272, Joe Biden at just 225. So, if the election were held today, which it obviously isn’t, we have months and months to go, Donald Trump would be a heavy favorite. And he is flipping states at this particular point, and we would expect that, like Georgia, that Joe Biden won, Nevada, that Joe Biden won, Arizona state, Joe Biden won, toss-up. Same in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. Same with Pennsylvania. And Michigan, where we obviously held that primary last week, at this particular point leaning Republican,” the analyst said.

“So, folks, if you have it in your mind that Donald Trump is just popular enough to win the Republican nomination, lose that thought because at this particular point when matched up against Joe Biden, Donald Trump is a favorite, which is something we couldn’t say at any point in 2020 and really wasn’t something that we could say at any point in 2016 when he was matched up against Hillary Clinton,” he said.

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MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki was even more dismayed:

“If you’re looking at the primaries and saying there’s all this evidence of Republicans turning on Trump in the fall, you’re not seeing it in the general election polling,” he said.

“The reason Trump is leading in these polls right now…they’re picking off Biden voters right now more than Biden is picking off Trump voters,” he said.

According to a recent survey, 97% of individuals who claimed to have voted for Trump in the 2020 election continue to support him, while only 85% of respondents are still backing President Biden. It remains uncertain how President Joe Biden’s recent intense State of the Union speech will impact his chances of reelection, but recent national polls indicate that he is trailing further behind his potential Republican opponent, Donald Trump. The polls, conducted in late February, consistently show Trump leading Biden by a significant margin, often beyond the polls’ margin of error.


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